Button



(No Model.)

- M. D. SHIPMAN.

BUTTON.

No. 350,019. Patented Sept. 28, 1886.

INVENTOR W flaw WITAESSE'S @MWQL flttorney UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

v MADISON D. SHIPMAN, OF DE KALB, ILLINOIS.

BUTTON.

fiPECIFICATiON forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,019, dated September 28, 1886.

Application filed November 93, 1885. Serial No. 183,766. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, llIA'DISON I). SHIPMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at De Kalb, in the county of De Kalb and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttons, ofwhich the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a vertical section of a button constructed according to my improvement. Fig. 2 shows a similar section of the head of my button before it is fastened to the fabric. Fig. 3 is a similar section at right angles to Fig. 2. Fig. 4. is a section and plan of a washer used for fastening the head to the fabric. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the spring shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, detached. Fig. 6 is a vertical section of an eyelet and the spring shown in Fig. 5, before it is secnredin the cap. Fig. 7-is a similar section of astud. Fig. 8 is a similar section of an eyelet for fastening the stud to the fabric. Fig. 9 is a similar section of the stud and eyelet united to the fabric. Fig. 10 is a similar section of a modified form of the stud. Fig. 11 is a section of a. modified form of cap. Fig. 12 is an elevation of a cap, showing the form of the aperture through which the end of the spring protrudes. Fig. 13 is a modification of the form of cap.

This invention relates to that class of separable buttons in which a spring inclosed in a cap catches and holds a stud slipped into an aperture in said cap; and the invention consists in the peculiar construction, and the com- -bination and arrangement of parts, hereinafter more particularly described and claimed.

Referring now to the details of the drawings, A represents a cap, and C an eyelet, which is held in the cap by a flange, a, turned under the flange of the eyelet. A spring, I), nearly encircles said eyelet, whose ends preferably pass out through an aperture, (1, in the cap.

To secure these parts to the fabric the neck of the eyelet G is first passed through .it and then through the washer F, after which the neck of the eyelet is spread in the usual manner, thus securely fastening the head of the button to the material.

The stud Bis preferably made, as shown in Fig. 7, with the usual notch or groove near the top, and having a projection, I), and a turned-under flange,b. It is secured to the ma terial on which itis to be used by an eyelet, E, which is put through said material, and its up per end, 9, coming in contact with the projection b on the bottom of the stud, is caused to spread outward between the upper and lower parts of the flange b, as shown in Fig. 9.

Instead of the stud and flange being formed in one piece, I sometimes make it in the form shown in Fig. lO in which the flange bis made separate from the stud and slipped thereon, and is retained there by the projection b, which is made sufficiently large for this purpose.

To fasten the parts of the button together it is only necessary to force the stud into the aperture in the head, when the upper part of the spring opens and allows the head of the stud to pass through it, and then closes again in the notch or groove in the stud.

To separate the parts it is only necessary to pull sharply on the head or stud, when the two will readily separate; but, if preferred, the ends of the spring D may be separated by the fingers, or by some device forced between them,when the stud will slip out. I prefer to make the opening a with notches, as shown in Fig. 12, by which means the arms of the spring may be raised so high as to prevent the stud engaging therewith, and, by slipping in the up per notch, will be retained in this position. Then the spring is designed to catch the head of the stud, the spring should be set in the lower notch. v

I sometimes make the cap without the apertures a, in which case the spring is entirely inclosed.

\Vhat I claim as new is- 1. In a separable button, the combination of the cap A, an eyelet, 0, having a flange, and a spring held by said flange, with a stud, B, substantially as described.

2. In a separable button, the combination of the cap A, having aperture a, an eyelet,C, and a spring partly encircling the eyelet and having a part thereof extending through the aperture a, substantially as described.

3. In a separable button, and in combination with a suitable cap, its fastening, and a notched stud, a spring having its lower portion secured in said cap and partly encircling the opening to receive the stud and then turned upward and over the said opening, substantially as described.

4. In a separable button, a stud,B. set centrally in a downwardly and inwardly turned:

flange, b, and a projection, I), in combination with a fastener, as E, adapted to be expanded into said flange, substantially as described.

5. In a separable button, the stud 13, pro vided with a projection, b, combined with the downwardly and inwardly turned flange Z),

having an opening to receive the stud, and a fastener, as E, adapted to be expanded into said flange, thus holding both the stud in the flange and the latter to the material, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses, this 21st day of November, 1885.

MADISON D. SHIPMAN.

Witnesses:

Ocrnvms KNIG nrr,

E. H. BOND. 

